It was called the Gilded Age and led to feel-good stories such as the Haymarket Riots. You could have said the same about Cornelius Vanderbilt. These are not perceived barriers. These are checks and balances to make sure that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. When you sit there in your dudgeon fantasizing about the displaced California okies destined to camp on your lawn and shoot you in the coming Water Wars, know that shit like this is what will drive them from their homes. Musk is a garden-variety technolibertarian whose interests are not with the rank-and file.He's what happens when a marginal Chaotic Good/Chaotic Evil gets a lot of cash, and a head of steam.
Musk is the most punk rock guy in business today.
I hesitated to post it because it's like 6000 words of hatorade. I've known a few people who have worked for SpaceX. They're inspired but they're also fearful. I know one guy who worked directly for Elon Musk (in a professional capacity) and he basically noped the fuck out of the position because it was chaotic, unsupported and subject to massive structural change on whim. I don't know anybody that has been berated by him but there certainly are a lot of enemies out there talking to the press.